Repeated disk accesses when running VNC

[Bird, Michael L.]

I should say not.  I do not experience that problem any of the machines on
which I have installed VNC

Michael L. Bird
Systems Project Coordinator
x5366

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	James (Wez) Weatherall [mailto:jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk] 
Sent:	Friday, January 21, 2000 7:21 AM
To:	vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
Subject:	Re: Repeated disk accesses when running VNC

> I have recently installed VNC on my machine (PC, Windows 98)
> and it appears to work as expected.
>
> However, while VNC is active and waiting for an external
> connection it continually accesses the hard disk. It does this every
> 2-3 seconds. I have concerns that this will reduce the lifetime of the
> drive. It is also annoying to have it continually clicking away.
>
> Is this normal?  Is there anything that can be done to reduce disk
> usage?

Are you sure you're not running WinVNC with debug settings enabled, or with
a virus killer running or similar?

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK                              - Tel : 343000




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